LABORATORY SERIES. No.07. Installation view of Roxy Paine’s Control Room at Kavi Gupta | Elizabeth St, 2013. Steel, wood, automotive paint, glass, 12′ 5″ x 18′ 2 3/8″ x 13′ 7.” Part power plant, part space-race agency, part recording studio, Control Room’s dashboard is an index of different operating and monitoring devices. It is timeless, devoid of a human operator and frozen as a diorama in the gallery space. Photo Courtesy of Joseph Rynkiewicz & Kavi Gupta Chicago | Berlin.
LABORATORY SERIES. No.02. Nikola Tesla’s Colorado Springs Laboratory. Publicity photograph of Tesla reading next to the ‘Magnifying Transmitter.’ The Colorado Springs lab was built in 1899 at Pikes Peak after Tesla concluded it was possible to transmit electrical power without wires at high altitudes. The lab was reinforced with large metal grounding plates and a roof that rolled back to prevent it from catching fire. Photo: Dickenson V. Alley of Century Magazine in 1899 / Wikipedia.
